Building and Leading Effective Teams (2 days)

For successful leadership, the team leader should lead by example, with enthusiasm and inspiration, recognizing member accomplishments, coaching and helping members to solving problems. To achieve the team’s objectives, the team leader needs to focus on the team members, their creative ideas and input. This approach helps the leader to keep the team motivated and on track for results.

The team leader facilitates cooperation among people of diverse skills and backgrounds to develop synergies and to maximize their strengths. To establish and maintain a cooperative environment of trust and creativity is one of the main tasks of a successful team leader. Such an environment is conducive for dialogue and debate within the team, helps to shape team consensus and is crucial for the good and productive functioning of a team. To this purpose, the team leader should adopt an open door policy for team members to come up with questions or for discussion.

For this cooperative process, the team leader needs to acquire and improve communication skills to successfully conduct debates and negotiations, to facilitate decision-making and conflict resolution.

Who should attend

In this course, participants will gain essential knowledge and skills required by a team leader. It is intended in particular for:

Team leaders

Project and programme managers

Heads of department

Heads of office

Senior managers and executive directors

How you and your organisation will benefit – Learning Objectives

On this course participants will be able to:

Organizing a team around the team’s objectives

Establishing a plan of action for the team and monitoring its implementation

Managing a team and team dynamics between team members and groups within the team

Improving communication within the team and with management

Understanding and resolving conflict

Identifying effective leadership and management approaches

Negotiating for better outcomes

Course programme

Day 1

Building Teams that Work

Organising a team

Defining the team’s objectives

Putting the right people on the right posts

Managing team dynamics

Integrating new members

Day 2

Leading a Team for Results

Improving Communication: Interpersonal skills, meetings and reporting

Facilitating time management, using coaching techniques

Resolving conflict: Coping with difficult situations and difficult people

Developing leadership and management approach

Improving negotiation and decision-making skills.

Interested in having this course conducted tailor-made for your organisation? Please contact us.